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- Took the guy to the doctor. Convinced him to get the flu shot.
- Picked up the car from the garage.
- Dropped off, picked up.
- Job.
- Did some D&D logistics stuff.
- Emailed an architect.
- Finally put up the blinds on one window. It involved drilling extra holes with a certain pitch in the brackets that allowed the screws to be flush with the surface and a whole bunch of other annoying stuff. (Which was way less annoying now that I finally got a power drill and don't have to hand drive wood screws and make holes by melting them in with a soldering iron.) It was then that I realized these blinds are not quite what we want. We wanted the top down/bottom up kind, so I'll have to move this, anyway.

Facebook laid off 11,000 people. That's a lot of people! On one hand, Facebook lost a lot of money recently. On the other, they still have a ton of money and probably didn't need to do this. On a third hand, the less stuff Facebook can do, the better.

- Dropped off, picked up.
- Emailed a friend back.
- Sent logistics emails.
- Job.
- Emailed my sister.
- Made dinner.
- Client D meeting.

I think that's all I got in me for today.

20 body weight squats. I have no idea what I should be doing.

I didn't expect to care this much about this, but I dislike that Medford Public Schools makes kids write about why we honor veterans. I don't think we should honor veterans anymore than we honor nurses.

Aw crud. I felt that I did a fairly mild run yesterday and did a decent stretch, but I have to sit carefully today to avoid lower back pain on one side. I'd start swimming but that has so much logistical overhead.

- Job.
- Voted.
- Looked around for a new mechanic that's closer to me. I just couldn't trust anyone I read about that's in range. I know I'm excessively distrustful about commerce lately, but it's just too stressful to make a leap of faith right now.
- Took the car to the old mechanic. It's actually not that far. It takes 17 minutes to run back from there.
- Emailed a friend.
- Called the building inspector to flag that I had submitted a permit application. Filled out another form, uploaded another document.
- Made dinner.
- Long talk with the guy in which he refused to acknowlege that all the screaming he did after we asked him to not scream was wrong. I think it took about 45 minutes before he came around? I have no idea if it was worth it for me to take a stand for The Truth here. Maybe it just happened because of a sugar rush.
- Client D communication.
- Client C communication.
- Downloaded some sea level data from NOAA. After a bunch of poking around at docs, I stll have no idea what these numbers mean.

17-minute run, 15 pull-ups.

ROBOTIX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOkbFREE9v4 This just pops into my head every few months or so. The seriousness, the vocoding, the robots hitting each other, the '80s-ness — it's all very concentrated.

There’s no tough choices (and in some slots, no choices at all) for me on tomorrow’s ballot. It’s all vote for the democrat when there’s actually more than one candidate and yes to all of the questions. I guess that’s good? Weird that there’s two non-binding “hey just doing a survey” questions at the end.

- Detached some of our lovely dining room wood paneling. There is, in fact, drywall behind it. So, I think we could peel it off, sand off the dried glue, joint compound the seams, then just paint it so that we have regular walls.
- Filled out a building permit form (surprisingly onerous) that I have been told will be rejected so that we can start the process of getting our fence approved.
- Emailed SEPAC leaders about how best to bring up changes to the classroom requested by the audiologist.
- Hauled some free furniture with Katt back to our house.
- Client C work.
- Took the guy to social class.
- Got groceries.
- Client D work.
- Went to the music programming group. Talked about formants. Looked for regional sea level rise data, which is all huge and confusingly formatted, and ended up using some tide gauge data from Biscayne Bay to determine what chords Flooding should play. It wasn't what I'm going for, but it did sound interesting. I may have to introduce some log scaling.
- Emailed a friend back.

From You’ve Been Played:

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced in 2021 the company was "developing new automated staffing schedules that use sophisticated algorithms to rotate employees among jobs that use different muscle-tendon groups to decrease repetitive motion and help protect employees from (musculoskeletal disorder) risks."This may improve matters, though it also illustrates the total control the company has over its workers' very movements, as if they were, indeed, computer-controlled robots made of meat. One member of a Reddit community for Amazon fulfillment center workers complained of a screen instructing them to perform "Savoring; in which they were told to "close your eyes and think about something that makes you happy."

A super tired-looking lady asked me how soon a bus would come. I looked it it up: 36 minutes. I felt bad to have to tell her that.

I feel tired, too. I did not do a study, but it seems like people that are taking the bus are rarely energized. Maybe this could be helped slightly by running them more frequently.

- Dropped off, picked up.
- Job.
- Volunteered at the school library. They didn't really say anything about how to get there or what I should expect to do ahead of time, but the librarian was cool. I read a story to the guy's class and was there to help kids find books, but they didn't really need any. Got to see what the guy's class was like and chatted with the librarian about how things work there. The kids are actually mostly very chill. I met some of the kids the guy mentioned and figured something out. The assistant teacher seemed kind of irritable with the kids, like me when I'm tired of asking for something to be done repeatedly, rather than a Joy of Learning kind of teacher. Not great, not the worst. Anyway, the kids found the visit novel and fun, so that's cool.
- Got some additional propane. Turns out the tank wasn't out. It was only 25% empty. I guess maybe in the dark, I didn't open the valve enough and didn't notice?
- Went to therapy. Mostly got advice on how far I could push when dealing with school personnnel (pretty far) and how to use IEP resources, which was really helpful. Also, it was suggested that I try to do too much, even though I actually want to do more than I do right now. The same tension exists with going to far to try to make perfect decisions vs. really fucking up because you didn't think things through well enough.
- Made dinner.
- Worked on some riffs, metal ones for the first time in a while. I don't do that often because A) my guitar playing isn't usually as regular as it has been lately, so it's hard to get stuff out and B) it gets frustrating because I happen to not really come up with that many good metal riffs that aren't very, very close to existing ones.
- Wrote the D&D recap, sent out XP.